Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia cistoidea
Common name
A guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Coast and ranges north of west of Nowra.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Stems usually stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often becoming hairless with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–1.5 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, tips pointed to notched, margins more or less curved down, both surfaces stellate-hairy. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 5–6 mm long. Stamens 6–12, on 1 side of carpels; stamens not producing pollen present and often more or less surrounding the carpels. Carpels 2, hairy with simple and stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowers single at the ends of short shoots, on stalks 0–8 mm long, but usually more than 3 mm long. Flowering: spring to autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~cistoidea (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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